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<div>Sorry for the late response to this interesting question. Apart from the studies already mentioned, this question has also been addressed, among several others, in the following works:</div>
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<div>Cysouw, Michael. 2005. The typology of content interrogatives. Paper presented at Assiociation for Linguistic Typology, 21–25 July 2005, Padang.<br/>
Cysouw, Michael. 2007. Content interrogatives in Pichis Ashéninca: Corpus study and typological comparison. International Journal of American Linguistics 73(2). 133–163.</div>
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<div>Hengeveld, Kees, Maria Luiza Braga, Elisiene de Melo Barbosa, Jaqueline Silveira Coriolano, Juliana Jezuino da Costa, Mariana de Souza Martins, Diego Leite de Oliveira,<br/>
Vinicius Maciel de Oliveira, Luana Gomes Pereira, Liliane Santana, Cassiano Luiz do Carmo Santos & Viviane dos Ramos Soares. 2012. Semantic categories in the indigenous languages of Brazil. Functions of Language 19(1). 38–57.</div>
<div>Hölzl, Andreas. 2018. A typology of questions in Northeast Asia and beyond. An ecological perspective (Studies in Diversity Linguistics 20). Berlin: Language Science Press.</div>
<div>Nau, Nicole. 1999. Was schlägt der Kasus? Zu Paradigmen und Formengebrauch von Interrogativpronomen. Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung 2. 130–150.</div>
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<div>Generally, it is necessary to distinguish between two different scenarios: the polysemy of an interrogative (e.g., meaning both 'who' and 'what') and the derivation of one interrogative from another (e.g., 'which-LOC/place > where'). The former seems to be less frequent than the latter, but both can be described with a conceptual space/semantic map developed by Cysouw that I slightly modified in my book from 2018. This conceptual space may be in need of an update but already captures many possible developments and possible polysemies.</div>
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<div>Hope this is of some help.</div>
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<div>Best,</div>
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<div>Andi</div>
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<div style="margin:0 0 10px 0;"><b>Gesendet:</b> Donnerstag, 20. August 2020 um 09:29 Uhr<br/>
<b>Von:</b> "Jan Rijkhoff" <linjr@cc.au.dk><br/>
<b>An:</b> "Peter Arkadiev" <peterarkadiev@yandex.ru>, "Linguistic Typology" <lingtyp@listserv.linguistlist.org><br/>
<b>Betreff:</b> Re: [Lingtyp] undifferentiated interrogative words</div>
<div name="quoted-content">Dear Peter,<br/>
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on this topic see also e.g.<br/>
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Mackenzie, J. Lachlan. 2009. Content interrogatives in a sample of 50 languages. Lingua 119-8, 1131-1161.<br/>
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Best, Jan R<br/>
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From: Lingtyp <lingtyp-bounces@listserv.linguistlist.org> on behalf of Peter Arkadiev <peterarkadiev@yandex.ru><br/>
Sent: Tuesday, August 11, 2020 8:47 PM<br/>
To: Linguistic Typology<br/>
Subject: [Lingtyp] undifferentiated interrogative words<br/>
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Dear typologists,<br/>
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as is well-known, there are many languages lacking a distinction between "animate" and "inanimate" interrogative words (see the doctoral dissertation by Dmitry Idiatov), e.g. Lithuanian "kas" means both 'who' and 'what'. I am wondering if there are any languages where interrogative words don't distinguish between such ontological categories as "place", "time" and "manner", e.g. have a single interrogative word which, depending on the context, can mean "when", "where", "how" and the like.<br/>
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Many thanks in advance and best regards,<br/>
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Peter<br/>
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Idiatov, Dmitry. 2007. A Typology of Non-Selective Interrogative Pronominals. PhD Dissertation, Universiteit Antwerpen.<br/>
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Peter Arkadiev, PhD Hab.<br/>
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Russian Academy of Sciences<br/>
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